The Structural Patterns Of Intersentential Switching In Fiki Naki’s Ometv Conversations

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the structural patterns of code-switching used by Fiki Naki, an Indonesian content creator who has gained attention for his multilingual abilities with 6,5M subscribers on YouTube. This research focuses on a structural analysis using Poplack’s (1980) Typology of Code-switching. A qualitative descriptive method was employed to analyze utterances from FikiNaki’s YouTube videos. The findings reveal that Intersentential Switching is the most dominant type of code-switching used by Fiki Naki. This structure indicates the speaker switches at sentence boundaries. The language shift occurred when one utterance was delivered completely in one language before switching to another. The dominance of this type proves that code switching in spontaneous digital communication is not a random mixing of languages, but rather a solid structural strategy to ensure the clarity of the message and a form of respect for the linguistic identity of the interlocutor